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Greek next or more Latin?
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My 10 & 12 yo dds have just finished Song School Latin and Prima Latina. I am wanting to focus on Latin and Greek for our foreign languages, so please don’t try to sell me on Spanish. 😀 BTDT.
My plan was to do Song School Greek next and then just work on Latin & Greek roots for awhile (English from the Roots Up). Does that make sense or should I stick w/ Latin to develop logic and reason?
By far the greatest benefits of Latin and Greek accrue once one is more deeply involved in the grammar. If you are primarily after the vocabulary benefits, your proposal to go on to roots and beginning Greek is fine. If you want some of the other benefits, you are going to have to stick with it a little longer, probably, and then add Greek. If you are concerned about your 10yo’s ability, and want to just catch up a little, that is fine, but you might consider getting something for your older one to work on also.
I second what Bookworm said. We are doing Latin for Children A for my son starting this year (he’ll be 12); then after 2-3 years or 9th grade, then he’ll go into Greek.
so when you are saying Greek is that NT Greek? I have understood that the two are not the same – the current language Greek and the NT greek. What do you use to teach NT greek if that is what you are doing?
There are actually several Greeks.
There is classical Greek (think Homer) koine or biblical Greek (what the New Testament and the Septuagint were written in), Byzantine Greek (spoken in the Byzantine empire) and modern Greek. I can’t think why anyone would want modern Greek unless they had family ties or were wanting to specialize in bankruptcy <vbg> Byzantine is commonly studied only by scholars, most universities teach Classical, and Bible colleges and homeschoolers commonly teach koine.Our focus in Koine Greek because hubby knows it and can teach it and we’d like them to be able to translate the NT. We also use English from the Roots up for Greek/Latin roots. :)Gina
There is classical Greek (think Homer) koine or biblical Greek (what the New Testament and the Septuagint were written in), Byzantine Greek (spoken in the Byzantine empire) and modern Greek. I can’t think why anyone would want modern Greek unless they had family ties or were wanting to specialize in bankruptcy <vbg> Byzantine is commonly studied only by scholars, most universities teach Classical, and Bible colleges and homeschoolers commonly teach koine.
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